SUSTAINED GESTURES

Notes form mid noughties:



Focusing on the infinitely small, it takes root and grows.

It houses an arena with a clear demarcation which is known as a still place only when something enters- some living form walks on scene. Attention follows, because there is contrast.

We explore these depths in our original dwelling- in the development which is constant growth and cutting back.

In the interlocking of fingers the palms create a vacuum. It is the charge of life. We meet out of volition because the deficit creates a surge which we must follow.

We meet in space. Then jam a contact into place. The contact is the place of stoppage but only for an instant- before it turns and rebounds at another angle.

So we dress up the shape of our bodies as excursions that reach a meeting, then inflect. These meetings could be seen as prohibitions. We kick or push or shove against what is before us. But the very excess is induced out of this prohibition or limitation.

This turning point impels us to converge at a simultaneous moment with others. It is the impetus- this journeying out to a meeting. It does not have to be a rebuff though it may be framed as such when synchronicity is uncertain.

Even when there is nothing to meet we can fashion our condition as if.., literally hanging in the space as if an invisible counter-angle was there. Then as it dissolves enfolding back around an inner circuit in order to then unfurl again and hang on the hooks which are the logical energetic support of our every gesture. This is Tai Chi- a form of space-shiatsu where the movement and the pause in posture are turning points of extension and enfoldment, creating a resonance of alignment through differentially angled body-parts. These specifically angled parts are a function of the whole gesture. One of sensing out and re-implicating within.